Pre - liberation - Victim Mentality

I'm a wild animal tied to a tree that keeps trying to break free.

There are people near to me but they seem far away. They are a disappointment to me and me to them.

Others laugh, some throw stones. Even the one's that comfort me can't stay for long or embrace me because they're afraid to let me loose, it's too convenient for them. It's not their place.

I keep struggling but it's tiring me. That learned helplessness is taking over. The wildness that longs to explore can only dream.

Trapped and downtrodden I long for someone to untie me so I can be free of this pain. I need to live as myself. I need to roam. I can't stay tied forever to this place.

Untie me please. Let me loose or else I'll, in my desperation, hang my self with this noose.